Monthly Archives: June 2001

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The Big Civil-Disobedience-Thing, Cha-Cha (June 28th, 2001) Each week on his HBO show, Saturday Night Live alumnus and Monday Night Football broadcaster Dennis Miller weighs in on current events with remarkable candor. Taking stock of the goings-on in San Diego, and perhaps preparing for an upcoming interview with the Sierra Club's Carl Pope, Miller notes this...read more here »

Schlosser Renews His Attack On Meat (June 28th, 2001) The July/August issue of famed Leftist magazine Mother Jones features a cover story from Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation. Schlosser, who fancies himself a 21st century Upton Sinclair, will take any opportunity to slam the meat industry, even when he has to go "forum shopping" to such...read more here »

Is CSPI Passing The Baton? (June 27th, 2001) Say it aint so! After 30 years of nannying and nagging us about our food choices, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) seems to be a bit off its game lately. Not to worry, though: in the 4 weeks since CSPI last told us what not...read more here »

Genetic Martyr Surfaces In San Deigo (June 27th, 2001) It was only a matter of time. With all the biotech battles in San Diego this week, the name Percy Schmeiser was bound to turn up eventually. Percy who? This Canadian canola-farmer-turned-activist was successfully sued by Monsanto for seed piracy - that is, the use of Monsanto's genetically improved...read more here »

Anti-Corporate Culture Dominates San Diego Protests (June 26th, 2001) San Diego's anti-biotech protesters have certainly given us a dose of low comedy this week. On one street corner, animal-rights zealots from PETA were turning a Burger King lunch counter into a soap-box; a few blocks away, the misguided Greenpeace DNA purity squad slapped "HAZARDOUS" stickers on grocery shelf...read more here »

The Luddites Are Coming! (June 25th, 2001) For the real scoop on what the activists call "Biodevastation 2001," let's turn to a native San Diego observer.Columnist Joseph Perkins writes that this week's protesters are the same group of "anti-technology, anti-commerce, anti-trade activists who disrupted the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle two years ago… The...read more here »

Biodevastation Activists Converge On San Deigo (June 25th, 2001) Hundreds of misinformed activists, "some dressed as ears of corn or genetically engineered tomatoes" (according to the Associated Press), began their protests this weekend. The action is aimed at the biotech industry, whose annual conference is taking place in San Diego. Local farmers, many of whom had nothing to...read more here »